Re: [Fwd: Re: Wikipedia criticism about root]

From: cstrato <cstrato_at_aon.at>
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 22:51:25 +0200

I knew that you will mention these special apps, mainly written for developers.

I mean real world programs for the average PC user, such as: Windows NT, XP, MS-Office (Word, Excel, etc), Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat Reader, Mozilla, etc

All of these commercial apps for the average user are written in C++, none in Java!!

Christian

Julius Hrivnac wrote:

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> cstrato wrote:
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>> At least, there are few commercial applications using QT, such as
>> "Adobe Photoshop Album" and "JMP" (a business unit of SAS), see the
>> TrollTech website, but please tell me any commercially successful
>> mainstream software written in Java. I do not know any!

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> WebSphere: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/was
> Oracle4JEE: http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/java/oc4j/index.html
> JBoss: http://www.jboss.org
> Together/J: http://www.borland.com/us/products/together/index.html
> Eclipse: http://www.eclipse.org
> NetBeans: http://www.netbeans.org
> Tomcat: http://tomcat.apache.org
> many others ...
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> Some of theme are GPL, others are expensive, but all are very successful.
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> Julius
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>>
>> Christian
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>> Julius Hrivnac wrote:
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>>> Well, almost all KDE applications are based on Qt. I don't care so
>>> much if it is nicer with Qt or GTK (I think both are fine). I prefer
>>> Qt for its API. But I certainly prefer Java to any C/C++ toolkit :-)
>>>
>>>          Julius
>>>
>>> Bertrand Bellenot wrote:
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>>>> Hi Julius,
>>>>
>>>> Well, I meant application in the way of "user application" (i.e. 
>>>> event display)
>>>> But thank you anyway.
>>>> Have a nice week-end.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Bertrand.
>>>>
>>>> Julius Hrivnac wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>  > 1) Root does everything just well enough. For almost all 
>>>>>> components, there
>>>>>>  >    is a better alternative (OpenInventor for 3D, Qt for GUI, 
>>>>>> HDF5 for
>>>>>> Qt for GUI ? Please give me an example of application with a nice 
>>>>>> GUI made with Qt.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Probably the best example is KDE (and applications based on it).
>>>>> One may like better GTK/GTK+ based GUI (used for example by Java
>>>>> on Linux), but I prefer Qt because of its Architecture.
>>>>> (But I do not use either for my development, I have all I need
>>>>> in Java :-)
>>>>>
>>>>>             Julius
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>

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Received on Fri Jun 30 2006 - 22:51:39 MEST